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The contemporary best seller list is flush with debuts this week. In the top ten, Paul Muldoon’s Maggots arrives with mealy fanfare at number 6, followed shortly thereafter at number...

James Franco! In honor of the release of the movie "Howl," based on Allen Ginsberg's classic poem, City Lights—Ginsberg's publisher—is sponsoring a book trailer contest. Details, from the City Lights Facebook...

The poetry blog Delirious Hem is devoting this week to the memory of Leslie Scalapino—poet, essayist, prose writer, editor, playwright, and general verbal wonder—who passed away in the spring. The...

Poet Stellasue Lee has received her second Pulitzer nomination for Firecracker Red, her latest poetry collection. In Firecracker, she continues to do what she does best, according to the Tennessean: spin grief and...

Teen drama isn't usually expressed in pithy verse. Yet the novels of Ellen Hopkins—Crank, Impulse, and her latests, Fallout—all relay the  harsh reality of adolescence in the form of sparse verse. From the Philadelphia Inquirer:  While the...

Nels Cline and Norton Wisdom Portable Universe | MySpace Video Dirty Baby  is one part book, one part CD, and 100 percent original. Artist Ed Ruscha, musician Nels Cline, and poet...

Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold has reported from political hotspots around the globe—many along the sweltering tenth parallel. She talks with Alexis Okeowo at the New Yorker's Book Bench about The...

“Lyrics just don’t hold up without the music,” Billy Collins recently told The Wall Street Journal. “I assure them [his students] that Jim Morrison is not a poet in any...

Humility is so overrated. Marc Livingston of Chicago—former grade school English teacher and tax-fraud felon—claims that he is hands-down the GPA (Greatest Poet Alive.) Not convinced? He’s sold about 7,518...

Writing in the Guardian, Sarah Crown finds “preternatural maturity” in debut poet Adam O’Riordan, whose book “In the Flesh” focuses on lost histories and impossible futures. One poem meditates on...